Andrei Tarkovsky: The rebellious director in search of the soul

This is a new book published two months ago by Mahmoud Al-Ghitani and published by Boomelha Publishing House, which was recently founded by Emirati novelist Obaid Bu Melha. The book is titled Andrei Tarkovsky: Messenger of Cinema, with the subtitle Cinema of Dreams and Visions. It is not new for me to mention Mahmoud Al-Ghitani’s tremendous efforts in his books on cinema, including “Cinema of the Road: Models of Arab Cinema,” “Clean Cinema,” “The Industry of Noise,” “Cinema of Expired Feelings: Wong Kar-wai,” and “The Philosophy of Cinema: Bela Tarr.” I have written about many of them. Add to that his literary studies, short story collections, and novels.